[[A bearded, wizened Santa Claus is speaking.]]
Santa: I don't know if I can keep this up!
[[Another man in a top hat listens in.]]
Santa: When I first signed on, it was for nuts and fruits in a few thousand kids' shoes.
Santa: TOUGH, but DOABLE - especially for a young guy.
Santa: When we started making DOLLS and ROCKING HORSES and going TRANSATLANTICS... even THEN, it was exciting! A new CHALLENGE! SUCCESS breeding SUCCESS!
Santa: But NOW...! Electronic toys! BILLIONS of kids!
Santa: The sleigh can only get so big! Me an' the reindeer aren't getting any younger! And the NIGHT sure isn't getting any LONGER!
Santa: I'm having to work TEN TIMES as hard just to TREAD WATER! The techniques of a generation ago NO LONGER WORK!
Tophat: Sounds like SOMEONE'S been spending too much time around those MILLENIALS
{{header: these days at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: in retrospect, it may have been folly to sign that thousand-year contract, but to a comparative politics of elven labor studies major, the promise of a steady paycheck is mighty alluring}}
in retrospect, it may have been folly to sign that thousand-year contract, but to a comparative politics of elven labor studies major, the promise of a steady paycheck is mighty alluring
The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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